2026 NBCT Exceptional Needs Specialist Practice Test – Comprehensive Prep for All Ages

Transfer of stimulus control is the process where guidance from prompts helps produce the correct response initially, and over time that control shifts to the natural or target stimulus. Providing instructional prompts creates an antecedent cue that makes the right answer more likely, and through prompting and fading, the learner begins to respond correctly without the prompts. This concept captures both using prompts to aid accuracy and the eventual transfer of that control to the desired stimulus.